cabal sandboxes executable path

[Tom Ellis]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 08:18:40PM +0100, Konstantine Rybnikov wrote:
> Wow, this is a real surprise for me! Thank for clarifying that!
> 
> I hope it's just me who missed this important information. Could you please
> share where was it described and how people know about it?

This is a surprise to me too.  What's the difference between the executable
in 'dist' and the final one?   What happens if I just do 'cabal build'?  Is
the final one not actually built?

Tom